{"id":55,"date":"2008-01-31T21:29:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2008\/01\/31\/good-head\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T21:29:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:29:59","slug":"good-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2008\/01\/31\/good-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Good head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember my <a href=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/2007\/12\/07\/one-bourbon-one-scotch-one-blog-part-vi\/\">promise<\/a> to try again with the wheat beer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/wheat1.jpg\" alt=\"Beer, ready to drink\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, the hopped <em>cerveza<\/em> (called &#8216;Kanga Beer&#8217;, because \u2014 well, look, if you need me to explain it won&#8217;t really be worth it) worked a treat so I tried again.  This time I didn&#8217;t have Chu Kong and Pearson &#8216;helping&#8217; me, and actually got as far as bottling it before nicking off to Enzed for a couple of weeks.  There was a faintly sulphurous nose when I bottled it, so I thought that leaving it 3 weeks at least would be a Good Plan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/wheat2.jpg\" alt=\"Burp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And by crikey but it&#8217;s good. Citrus flavours at the top, and very refreshing with it.  Rather gassy (look at the head on it!) and the faintest whiff of sulphur towards the bottom, but that should disappear with more aging (and indeed, it&#8217;s less pungent than a commercial summer wheat beer that we bought in NZ.  Beats that one into a cocked barrel, it does).<\/p>\n<p>Only downside is that there&#8217;s only <strike>13<\/strike> 12 bottles left.  Better get your skates on, this is available for a limited time only.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The brew you see next to the glass above is my latest.  All I&#8217;ll say is that it involves a pound of fresh ginger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember my promise to try again with the wheat beer. Well, the hopped cerveza (called &#8216;Kanga Beer&#8217;, because \u2014 well, look, if you need me to explain it won&#8217;t really be worth it) worked a treat so I tried again. This time I didn&#8217;t have Chu Kong and Pearson &#8216;helping&#8217; me, and actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rg-d.com\/BioLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}